Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness

CHAP. V. How the Saints are Citizens of Heaven, opened in Nine Particulars.

NOW the Saints are Citizens of Heaven, For, First, Their names are all enrolled in Heaven, They are written in Heaven, in the 10. Luke 20. Rejoice in this, That your names are written in Heaven. In Heaven is the Books of life where all the Names of the Saints are written. Philip. 4. 3. Whose names (saith he) are written in the Books of life.

NOW the Saints are Citizens of Heaven, For, First, Their names are all inrold in Heaven, They are written in Heaven, in the 10. Luke 20. Rejoyce in this, That your names are written in Heaven. In Heaven is the Books of life where all the Names of the Saints are written. Philip. 4. 3. Whose names (saith he) are written in the Books of life.

Secondly, The Saints are the Citizens of Heaven, for they have Christ their Head gone before to take possession of Heaven in their names, therefore they have a right to Heaven. As a man may be a Citizen, although he should travel in another Country, yet his name being enrolled there, and he having possession there, he may be said to be a Citizen though he be in a strange land for the present in his body: So the Saints have their names enrolled in Heaven, they have Jesus Christ their head that is gone before in their names to take possession for them, and to provide Mansions for them; as in the 14. John.